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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Category Archives: Quotes
Countless other words . . . had simply ceased to exist
“As we have already seen in the case of the word free, words which had once borne a heretical meaning were sometimes retained for the sake of convenience, but only with the undesirable meanings purged out of them. Countless other … Continue reading
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I never thought we’d have a leader with a combover
“I never thought we’d have a leader with a combover. I always thought people would sense that the combover subject was covered in shame and that his demand for our pity and tact on behalf of protecting his fantasy of … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, donald trump, fascism, hair, lauren berlant
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Thoughtful writers need to be good hunters
“By its nature, thinking twists and turns, drifts and meanders. A hunter who followed a bee-line from a point of departure to a predetermined destination would never catch prey. To hunt you have to be alert for clues and ready … Continue reading
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What your head’s inside of
“Ask not what’s inside your head, but what your head’s inside of.” — James J. Gibson, in William M. Mace, James J. Gibson’s Strategy for Perceiving
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Tagged james j. gibson, perception, psychology
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Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play
“Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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A specific level of the production of meaning that basically exists in every artwork
“To speak about the performative in relation to art is not about defining a new class of artworks. Rather, it involves outlining a specific level of the production of meaning that basically exists in every artwork, although it is not … Continue reading
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Tagged art, dorothea von hantelmann, performance, performativity
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The goal of critical scholarship and artistic and scientific practices
“The goal of critical scholarship and artistic and scientific practices is to make media unstable. To turn not to solving problems, but to imagining new worlds exceeding the demands of war and consumption that kill signification, experience, and time itself.” … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, immersion, interactive architecture, orit halpern
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Play does not only include the logics of the game
“Play does not only include the logics of the game – it also includes the values of the player. Her politics. Her body. Her social being. Play is a part of her expression, guided through rules, but still free, productive, … Continue reading
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Tagged miguel sicart, performance, play, procedurality
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Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more
“Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more. For space in our image is place, and time in our image is occasion.” – Aldo van Eyck, Place and Occasion
Play implies interplay
“[Play,] whether in life or in a wheel, implies interplay. There must be give and take, or dialogue, as between two or more persons and groups.” – Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media